Wojciech Yaruzelsky died

In Warsaw, at the age of 90, General Wojciech Yaruzelsky, the last head of the communist Poland and the last of the surviving leaders of the socialist in Eastern Europe, died. It is reported by Gazeta Wyborcza.

Recently, Yaruzelsky was in the neurological department of the hospital of the Military Medical Institute. There, in early May, he transferred a stroke, after which he did not come to consciousness. In addition, the former Polish leader was ill with lymph nodes cancer.

Yaruzelsky was born in July 1923. Since 1969 he was the Minister of Defense of Poland. In February 1981, he also became Prime Minister of Poland, and in October of the same year - the first secretary of the Polish United Workers Party. In 1985, having left the government posts, but having retained the party, he became the chairman of the State Council of Poland.

On December 13, 1981, Yaruzelsky introduced martial law in the country. This was preceded by mass strikes, which led to the creation of Lech Valensa of an independent self -governing trade union "Solidarity".

Yaruzelsky internomed the activists of "solidarity", and the trade union itself remained outside the law until 1989, although martial law was canceled in 1983.

Negotiations with the "solidarity" in Porp decided to start at the end of 1988. The result of this "round table" was the institution in Poland of the bicameral parliament - the Sejm - and the post of president. In the 1989 parliamentary elections, candidates from the "solidarity" won, but however, the president of the Sejm appointed Yaruzelsky. He called on the "solidarity" to unite with the Communists, but was refused, and the opposition government was formed. In 1990, Valens won the universal presidential election.

Later, Yaruzelsky repeatedly tried to attract martial law to the court in 1981, as well as for involvement in the execution of the demonstration in 1970 - then 44 people were killed in Gdansk from police bullets, more than 1000 were injured. But due to Yaruzelsky’s complaints about poor health and legal disputes, these attempts ended in nothing.

The last time accusations from Yaruzelsky were removed in the summer of 2011 . The court in Warsaw explained this decision with a cancer disease of the former Polish leader. The accusation required 10 years in prison for Yaruzelsky.